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Events for the president will range from speaking in Parliament to meeting German Premier League footballers to visiting the David Bowie Centre in the Victoria and Albert Museum's new wing in east London.

This land bridge between east and west, he said, would be the “key to the universe” for how it could control global trade flows.

By beginning the series in Perth, in the west-coast time zone, and following with a day-nighter in Brisbane, the series opens with two matches suitable for prime-time TV viewing on the east coast of Australia.

It passed near the Caribbean and skirted the US east coast.

The Kairos was struck in the south-west area of the Back Sea and the Virat in a central area further east.